Large igneous provinces

Coffin, M.F. and Eldholm, O. (1993) Large igneous provinces. Scientific American, October 1993, 42-49. 

Minor D.R. and Mukasa S.B. (1997) Zircon U-Pb and hornblende °Ar- Ar ages for the Dufek layered mafic intrusion, Antarctica implications for the age of the Ferrar large igneous province. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 2497-2504. 

Holbrook W. S. and Kelemen P. B. (1993) Large igneous province on the US Atlantic margin and implications for magmatism during continental breakup. Nature 364, 433-436. 

Kempton P. D., Downes H., Neymark L. A., Wartho J. A., Zartman R. E., and Sharkov E. V. (2001) Garnet granulite xenoliths from the northern Baltic shield the underplated lower crust of a palaeoproterozoic large igneous province. J. Petrol. 42(4), 731-763. 

Figure 14 Locations of selected major Phanerozoic continental flood basalts worldwide. References as in Table 3, with exception of Madgascar (Storey et al., 1997), Emeishan (Chung and Jahn, 1995 Zhou et al, 2002), North Atlantic Igneous Province (Saunders et al, 1997), Ethiopian and Yemeni traps (Menzies et al, 1997 Pik et al, 1999), and Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) (Hames et al, 2000). The separation of CEB provinces into high Ti/Y ( P or plume type) and low Ti/Y ( A or arc type) from Puffer (2001). However, most provinces include examples of both types of basaltic rocks (cf. the Parana-Etendeka provinces). A more complete compilation of terrestrial large igneous provinces can be found...

Figure 17 La/Sm versus La/Ta for the Siberian Traps. UC = upper crust, LC = lower crust (reproduced by permission of American Geophysical Union from Large Igneous Provinces, 1997, 100, 335-355).

Chesley J. T. and Ruiz J. (1998) Crust-mantle interaction in large igneous provinces implications from the Re-Os isotope systematics of the Columbia River flood basalts. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 154, 1-11. 

Coffin M. F. and Eldholm O. (1994) Large igneous provinces crustal structure, dimension, and external consequences. Rev. Geophys. 32, 1-36. 

Lassiter J. C. and DePaolo D. J. (1997) Plume/Uthosphere interaction in the generation of continental and oceanic flood basalts chemical and isotopic constraints. In Large Igneous Provinces, Geophysical Monograph 100 (eds. J. J. Mahoney and M. F. Coffin). American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, pp. 335—355. 

Zhou M. F., Malpas J., Song S. H., Robinson P. T., Sun M., Kennedy A. K., Lesher C. M., and Keays R. R. (2002) A temporal link between the Emeishan large igneous province (SW China) and the end-Guadalupian mass extinction. Earth Planet. Set Lett. 196, 113—122. 

Figure 1 Map showing all major oceanic plateaus, and other large igneous provinces discussed in the text...

Figure 20 Flow diagram summarizing the possible physical and chemical environmental effects of the formation of large igneous provinces around the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary (after Kerr, 1998).

Coffin M. F. and Eldholm O. (1992) Volcanism and continental break-up a global compilation of large igneous provinces. In Magmatism and the Causes of Continental Breakup, Geological Society of London Special Publication 68 (eds. B. C. Storey, T. Alabaster, and R. J. Pankhurst), pp. 17-30. 

Eldholm O. and Coffin M. F. (2000) Large igneous provinces and plate tectonics. AGU Monograph 121, 309-326. 

Hauff F., Hoemle K., Tilton G., Graham D. W., and Kerr A. C. (2000a) Large volume recycling of oceanic lithosphere over short time scales geochemical constraints from the Caribbean Large Igneous Province. Earth Planet Set Lett. 174, 247-263. 

Barley M. E., Pickard A. L., and Sylvester P. J. (1997) Emplacement of a large igneous province as a possible cause of banded iron formation 2.45 biUion years ago. Nature 385, 55-58. 

Wignall P. B. (2001) Large igneous provinces and mass extinctions. Earth Sci. Rev. 53, 1-33. 

Hooper, P. 1997, The Columbia River Flood basalt province current status. In Coffin, M. F. Mahoney, J. J. (eds) Large Igneous Provinces. Continental, Oceanic, and Planetary Flood Volcan-ism. Geophysical Monograph, American Geophysical Union, 100, 1-27. 

Heaman, L. M. 1997. Global mafic magmatism at 2.45 Ga remnants of an ancient large igneous province Geology, 25, 299-302. 

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